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Issue Details: First known date: 1885... 1885 On the Queen's Service : A Tale of Many Lands
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An adventure story, focusing on spies and various acts of derring-do across Europe.

Notes

  • BAL author stated as: J J G Bradley
  • Hogarth House Library.
  • Summarised by Jess Nevins at No Fear of the Future as 'Sleazy French secret agents! Ambushes in the Alps! Russian spies who are "the head and motive power of all the spies that are spread over the continent of Europe." Intrigue in Istanbul! Sabre to sabre combat with Cossacks in Sebastopol! Hand to hand combat with a Circassian ape! Cannibal femmes fatale! Noah's Ark! Fanatical Muslim hordes!'
  • Users are warned that this work contains terminology that reflects attitudes or language used at the time of publication that are considered inappropriate today.

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